Codes and conventions of News and genres Flashcards
What does the regional genre mean?
-contains some national and international news but focus’ on news relating to a specific area
What does a local genre mean?
-contains some national and international news but focus’ on fairly local news topics in detail
What does a tabloid genre mean?
-cover all national and international news
-often contains a certain amount of more ‘gossipy’ or scandalous news items
What does a broadsheet genre mean?
-the largest type of newspaper
-covers all national and international news
-often in a serious or formal way
What is negativity news value?
-bad news (involving death, tragedy, violence, natural disasters etc) is always rated above ‘positive’ stories
-news stories will always lead the news
What is regency news value?
-is really important because people want to know about stories as they happen
-there is a tight time limit to publishing news
What is exclusivity news value?
-news outlets are very competitive about breaking news
-if a newspaper or news programme is the first and only news organisation breaking a story they will rate that very highly
-you have to either be the first person to report something or report it the best
What is size news value?
-the bigger the impact a story has the more people it affects
-the more money/resources it involves the higher its value->known as threshold
-the more people something impacts the more likely people would want to read it
-you wont read something that doesn’t affect you (area etc)
What is proximity news value?
-audiences supposedly relate more to stories that are close to them geographically or involve more people from their country or those that are reported that way
-people relate to news that is close to them in their area or involving people they know or who are in the same area as you (eg schools)
What is continuity news value?
-when things have a narrative or something to follow along with then people are interested->royal family->family narrative intrigues people
What is uniqueness news value?
-any story which covers a unique or unusual event has news values
-not quite public interest but not ages away and is simple->its unique to draw you in
What is simplicity news value?
-stories which are easy to explain are preferred over stories which aren’t
-if you don’t understand something you won’t read about it
What is expectedness news value?
-if it’s what you expect/predictable you are most likely to read about it->if it touches on your life then it has news value
What is elite nations/people news value?
-any story which covers an important, powerful nation (or organisation) has greater news values than a story which covers a less important nation->the same goes for people
-causes a lack of powers for other places like Africa because we couldn’t read about it
-simplistic narrative->easier to follow along as we think we know about the country like our own in some way
-a story with power (a head of a company rather than a worker) has more news value
What is personalisation news value?
-human interest stories that are about real people
-you can have empathy but it might not have great news value so it might not make front cover
-it depends on the scale of the event
